A British Officer

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Remarks on the most important military operations of the English forces, on the Western side of peninsular of Hindoostan; in 1783 and 1784, in which the conduct of the Army under the command of Brigadier General Mathews, is vindicated, from the illiberal Misrepresentations, contained in a late narrative, signed John Charles Sheen, and published by order of the court of directors of the East India Company. In a series of letters to a friend in England to which are annexed two original letters from Gen Mathews to Lord Macartney and Sir Eyre Coote

1788
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An account of the gallant defence made at Mangalore in the East-Indies; against the united efforts of the French and the Nabob Tippo Sultan, by a detachment of His Majesty’s and the honourable the East India Company’s troops, under the command of the late Colonel John Campbell Major of the 42nd (or Royal Holland) Regiment of Foot, in May 1783. With the suffering of that garrison during a six months cessation of arms. To which is added the orders given out by Colonel Campbell from the commencement of the siege to the time of the garrison’s being obliged to capitulate; and two small views, and a plan of the fort, with the country immediately adjacent.

1786

Social life in the British Army

1900
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Social life in the British Army

1899
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